Yodio.com is a destination website for creating and publishing audio-visual podcasts. It’s free and anyone can use it – all you need is a phone and a computer! Yodio gives you the ability to synchronize your voice commentaries with digital photos to create easily shared, voice-narrated, photo presentations. This new form of rich-media broadcasting supports voice-narrated photo presentations that can be easily shared throughout the internet.

Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio’s free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It’s made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.

Yodios are a whole new form of personal broadcasting!
Some of the key elements include:

* Easy production of synchronized audio and photos

* Easy editing and updating of these rich media audio guides

* Accessible from most anywhere via the internet

* Ability for the authors to share freely or price for sale

* Selected podcasts can be downloaded and played on portable devices like MP3 players

* Users can rate the content to help others select more knowingly and to help the authors to revise and refresh their content

* Authors can tag their productions with GPS coordinates to assist users with locating the productions relevant to their travels

Thanks to the many advances in the internet and digital devices, users of Yodio can share voice-narrated, photo presentations to the home, in the office, out-and-about, and on-the-road. Your voice is unique and personal…just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues. Remember - Yodios are Free to Record - Free to Produce - Free to Publish!

Clay Loges, Founder of Yodio.com, joined The Big Blend Magazine editors Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, as a featured guest on their online radio show ‘Champagne Sundays’. This show aired live from 11am-1pm (PST) on Sunday, July 27, 2008.  To listen to Clay's interview, please double click on the Play Button below.